The Dialogue
The Dialogue is an annual event hosted by Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon which facilitates debates and discussions that form opinions, questions, and beliefs. It is a platform where open communication is envisioned, and students are encouraged to juxtapose their learning within the classroom to the events that are happening around them.
The Dialogue, this year was hosted in February 2020 on a very important topic- ‘Is India today in consonance with its constitutional values?’. The event was facilitated by Ms. Soumya Kulshreshtha. The Speaker’s List comprised of four eminent personalities from different walks of life-
•Ms. Aditi Maheshwari Goyal- Executive director, Vani Prakashan and Managing Trustee, Vani Foundation.
•Col. Gopal Karunakaran: CEO, Shiv Nadar Schools and President, Shiv Nadar University.
•Ms. Devika Mittal: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Bharti College, Delhi University.
•Ms. Suhasini Rao: Director and Co-Founder, Cube Route Advisory.
The discussion started with the Speakers talking about their idea of India and how times have changed in the last 50 years. After a fruitful discussion of about 40 minutes, the floor was opened for questions from the audience. Many probing questions were asked by both parents and students. The Dialogue was brought to a close with this contention that Constitution continues to hold relevance in contemporary times and will always be a relevant document enshrining the principles and values which India as a nation stands for.
Team Pawsitivity - Junior Astitva Samman 2020
The Capstone Team 'Pawsitivity' (Arushi Shah, Utpal Chauhan, Navya Jain, Navya Aggarwal, Sprihha Singh and Arushi Shah), at Shiv Nadar School, Noida, have been honoured with the 4th JUNIOR ASTITVA SAMMAN 2020 by Women and Child Committee of PHD Family Welfare Foundation on 22nd February 2020.
The JUNIOR ASTITVA SAMMAN encourages and motivates school students who have made an innovation that helps society.
The team Pawsativity received a standing ovation for their project and an award from Dr D.K. Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It was indeed a proud moment for the whole school. The project was to make amputee dogs self-reliant by providing comfortable and affordable prosthetic paws and limbs.
Asia Regional Space Settlement Design Competition (ARSSDC)
The Asia Regional Space Settlement Design Competition (ARSSDC), a competition held by Atlantis in cooperation with Boeing and NASA. The competition deals with putting students across Asia to design a highly detailed proposal using their knowledge under timed conditions on a settlement in space. It aims to give students real industry experience and simulation in an environment which is not only international but also culturally enriching.
It is a yearlong investigatory exploration. 12 students (Uday Bhanu Singh, Naman Goyal, Adityan, Tanmay Kumar, Aaryan Mahesh Wari, Nandini Gaur, Arin Chaudhary, Romsha Singh, Madhav Luthra, Sidhant Bembey) from different subjects like Economics, Maths, Physics, Biology, Business, IT form a team and work together. After qualifying all three rounds and became Asia level runner-up.
Round 1: Qualifying round at India level. Students were given a Request For Proposal (RFP) on which they had to collaborate and do lots of research and make a proposal. This year’s RFP was “The Foundation Society requests that contractors propose to design, develop, and plan operations of the first large space settlement in solar orbit, which will move Earth-crossing asteroids to orbits where they can provide raw materials for refineries and factories in space”
Round 2 (India level): Once qualified in round 1, the team worked in a company where another four schools in India were the members. They were given fresh RFP. They were mentored by a group of scientists (from NASA and India) and then made a proposal (timeline: 36 hours) and finally presented to mass in the auditorium. They confidently handle the questions of scientists in front of 26 schools from different parts of India and made us proud by qualifying round 2.
Round 3(Asia level): Round 2 was repeated at Asia level. Students from Thailand, China, Japan, Iran, Afghanistan collaborated in a team and worked on a fresh RFP with a new challenge. Shiv Nadar School, Noida students were Runner up at the Asia level
Green School Award
Green School Program (GSP) is an environmental education programme directed to subtly sensitizing students to the environment through hands-on and thought-provoking activities. It is also an environment management system that audits, through students, the consumption of natural resources within school campuses and help schools become good environmental managers by deploying pragmatic solutions to reduce the wastage of precious resources. GSP is a self-assessment programme in which our school audited the use of resources and map their consumption and wastage. The exercise involved the collection of information under the following heads: Air, Energy, Water, Land, Waste, and Food.
Shiv Nadar School, Noida took part in the audit process in 2016, 2017 and 2019. We started our journey with the help of environment club children in the middle school to collate the information, evidence and conducted a school-wide survey to validate the data given by Administration team. In later years, we reviewed and reflected on our previous year’s performance, devised the strategies to make our school Green by putting the best practices forward. We are delighted to inform that Shiv Nadar School; Noida has been certified as ‘Green’ in the GSP Audit 2019-20. We have been shortlisted in the Green category for the GSP Climate Change Awards from over 1700 schools across the country that submitted the Audit this year and is among top 70 schools in India.
A core team was formed this year constituting teachers across grades and student council members (Primary and Secondary) along with environment club children to monitor the processes and provide us with the documents/data of the best practices and initiatives taking place in school. We are proud of the fact that we have been doing well in the food and waste section and have been able to show good practices being followed. We have also improved our performance graph in the Land, Air, Water and Energy section this year by focusing on sharing the policies and initiatives taken in these sections.
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Robocup Juniors
RoboCupJunior (RCJ) is one of the best Robotics and Automation competitions in the world. It focuses on education and aims to introduce the larger goals of the RoboCup project (creating robots) to primary and secondary school children. RCJ organizes 3 types of competitions namely: dance, rescue and soccer. The first international RoboCup Junior competition was held in Melbourne, Australia. Since then, it has been held in various countries viz. 2014: Brazil; 2015: Germany. RoboCup Junior (RCJ) inculcates interest in S.T.E.M Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). It brings together young people from all over the world to exhibit their creativity & problem-solving skills through educational robotics competition.
Rescue Line - The competition mission is to locate natural disaster victims from a building, where the rescue personnel in place need robotic assistance in dangerous areas.
In the Rescue Line category, we had 35 teams participating in this category. We had two teams(TeamSystem Overload and Team Robotomists) St from our school, two from Shiv Nadar School Faridabad and one team from Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram. Each team had two runs and the best out of two was taken as the Final Score.
Team System Overload (Aditi Gangadharan, Mudit Adityaja, Nikhil Sundaresan and Viryansh Rastogi) secured the first place with a perfect run. This team had the best Robot Design and also were declared as the Team with the best overall performance. Team System Overload is technically qualified to represent the country in Robocup International France 2020 and participate in Robocup Asia Pacific Japan 2020
Team Robotomists (Kabir Talwar, Naman Goyal, Sidhant Bembey and Tanmay Kumar ) secured Fifth place and they are technically qualified to participate in Robocup Asia Pacific Japan 2020
Rendezvous with Francesc Miralles-Author IKIGAI
“At the end of the day, all we want is to be happy” a very thought-provoking statement made by Francesc Miralles while addressing the audience at Shiv Nadar School Gurgaon who were gathered on 22nd January 2020 to have a conversation with the mind behind the book ‘IKIGAI – The Japanese secret to a long and happy life’. The audience at the event not only comprised the student, teacher and parent body of Shiv Nadar School but also of book lovers from all over Delhi NCR. He began the interaction by acknowledging his deep appreciation and gratitude towards the audience and went on to explain what his book was about.
Mr. Miralles stated that according to the Japanese, everyone has an Ikigai. Some people have found their Ikigai, while others are still looking, though they still carry it within them. According to those born in Okinawa, the island with the most centenarians in the world, our Ikigai is the reason we get up in the morning. With the help of multiple anecdotes from his life which included how he found writing to be his true calling, he explained to the keen listeners how they could find their Ikigai. Following that, he spoke about the importance of prioritizing one’s happiness over money as he believed money to be a natural consequence of one’s pursuance of their passions and aspirations. The audience was extremely interactive during the session by asking Mr. Francecs multiple questions.
When an audience member asked him how one could get the courage to change their Ikigai multiple times, he replied by giving an example of the Spanish singer – Julio Iglesias who used to be a football player but lost his ability to play due to an accident. He explained that when something doesn’t go our way in our lives and we think of it to be the end of the world, maybe, that’s the beginning of something new. The session was an extremely enriching experience and motivated every single person in the audience to find their Ikigai
Vuca Chronicles | January 2020
The 71st Republic Day celebrations
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation; nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(1869 – 1948)
The 71st Republic Day celebrations at Shiv Nadar School Noida commenced with the ritualistic hoisting of the Great Indian Tricolour by the Principal, Mrs. Shashi Banerjee. The ceremony was duly attended by the students, parents and staff members including the support staff, of the school. The Flag hoisting ceremony followed by the reading of the Constitution Preamble, both in Hindi and English by all present, reinforced the ‘living up’ to the true meaning of the constitution.
Mrs. Banerjee reinstated an essential Sanskrit shloka in today’s society ‘Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niramaya. Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu, Maa Kashchiddukh Bhagbhaveta’. May all become happy. May none fall ill. May all see auspiciousness everywhere. May none ever feel sorrow. The little geniuses of the school truly summed up the meaning of this great day by recalling the sacrifices made by the freedom fighters of the country and discussing love, gratitude and respect for the motherland. The staff members reflected upon the honesty of doing the work without the aim of a reward and teach our children the principles of democracy and freedom.
The valuable elements of liberty, fraternity and equality across the nation was re-established and reaffirmed the daily efforts to ensure that the school achieves newer echelons of success.
F 1 in Shiv Nadar School Noida
F1 in schools is an international STEM competition for school children (aged 9-19), in which groups of 3-6 students design and manufacture a miniature car out of the official F1 model block using CAD/CAM design tools. The regional finals for F1 was hosted by Shiv Nadar School, Noida on January 17, 2020. 34 teams from 11 schools across Noida participated in the event including one team from Jammu. The teams were judged on various criteria like verbal presentation, pit display, design and engineering presentation, reaction time and the time taken by the car to complete the race.
Shiv Nadar School Noida, bagged the ‘Best Verbal Presentation’ award and the ‘Women in F1’ award. 10 teams were selected for country finals including ‘Team Aratic’ which was from Shiv Nadar School, Noida. The members of these teams are Tvisha Raj 8 Kanha, Vaidehi Saxena 8 Kanha, Ekansh Agarwal 8 Kanha, Sidharth Shiv Kumar 8 Kanha, Oorjit Mahajan 8 Kanha, Vani Upadhyay 8 Kanha.
Light, camera and action - Symphony & Expression
Taking an independent decision of making a choice to either act, sing or dance, weeks of practice and patience and holding the excitement to wear colourful props and costumes on the stage, students of nursery and KG put up a spectacular show in front of the audiences. The annual production “Symphony and Expressions- Toy story” was planned for nursery and kindergarten students to give them a platform to exhibit their talent and feel confident and proud of the choice they made while picking up a basket for themselves and to celebrate the festivity in the air. Despite extreme weather conditions our little ones enthusiastically attended all the practice sessions. Not only that, they took another baby step in the course of their school life by staying back in school for longer hours for the first time ever. In Kindergarten from each section, students were divided into 3 baskets comprising dance, music, and theatre. Students were made to practice for days before the final show during zero periods.
Nursery presented the beginning part of the story through dance numbers and melodious singing with parts of small theatre presentations. Students were able to capture everybody’s attention on stage by performing each act with confidence and vigor.
